12 million still under boil orders in Texas as weather crisis impacts every aspect of life Hospitals running out of supplies, store shelves empty and last updated 2021-02-19 16:36:09-05 Late Friday morning, the operators of Texas' electrical grid announced that for the first time in about five days, the grid was operating normally and able to provide power to the entire state. The number of people without power in Texas continues to drop. But as of 3:30 p.m. ET on Friday, there are still nearly 165,000 homes and businesses in the state that are still without power nearly a week after winter storms knocked large swaths of the grid offline.